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U.S. Army's Apache AH-64 completes flight test with high energy laser - News

June 26, 2017
Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems   Raytheon Company  
MCKINNEY, Texas. The U.S. Army Apache Program Management Office collaborated with the U.S. Special Operations Command and Raytheon to complete a flight test of a high energy laser system onboard an Apache AH-64 at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The demonstration marks the first time that a fully integrated laser system engaged and fired on a target from a rotary-wing aircraft over a wide variety of flight regimes, altitudes, and air speeds, officials say.
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Embedded Tech Trends 2017 wrap-up - Story

April 19, 2017
Jerry Gipper  
In January, Embedded Tech Trends 2017 was held at the wonderful Bourbon Orleans Hotel in the heart of the New Orleans French Quarter. Bordered by Bourbon Street to the west with Jackson Square and the mighty Mississippi River to the east, the attendees had easy access to the sights and sounds of the true essence of New Orleans (NOLA).
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Economics of modularity and reuse, continued - Story

April 11, 2017
John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems  
In our March issue, I talked about how electronics-reuse initiatives within the Department of Defense (DoD) such as Hardware Open Systems Technology (HOST), the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA), and the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) are driving commonality in avionics, radar, unmanned systems, and other defense applications, thus enabling long-term cost savings in an era of expensive platforms such as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
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Trump defense budget increase, open architectures, and export reform - Story

March 31, 2017
John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems  
Every month the McHale Report will host an online roundtable with experts from the defense electronics industry ? from major prime contractors to defense component suppliers. Each roundtable will explore topics important to the military embedded electronics market. This month we discuss the potential impact on the Trump Administration?s proposed $54 billion increase to the defense budget, open architecture initiatives, and export regulation trends.
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Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA), an overview - Story

March 17, 2017
John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems  
Budget cuts and sequestration, while handcuffing the defense industry and the warfighter, have also forced the government to embrace a movement toward more commonality across multiple platforms through open standards and establishing a culture of re-use. One such initiative, the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA), creates modular open systems architecture specifications to enable re-use of key sensor components across multiple platforms and services. In this Q&A with Dr. Ilya Lipkin, Lead Manager for SOSA at the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, explains SOSA, its similarities to other initiatives like the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE), how standards organizations like VITA are involved, and why today?s procurement environment is so open to initiatives such as SOSA.
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Open architecture and reuse initiatives make economic sense - Story

March 06, 2017
John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems  
I'm often preaching in this space about how the demand for commonality is driving procurement and technology development within the Department of Defense (DoD), a demand brought on by the DoD budget cuts the last few years and sequestration. Now, with budget increases promised by the Trump administration, I see the demand only growing because it just makes good business sense; I also see a number of initiatives currently pushing for more open architectures and technology reuse across multiple platforms.
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The key to preparing vehicles for A-PNT - Blog

February 27, 2017
Alan Simmonds   Themis Computer  
A-PNT, or assured position, navigation, and timing, is a relatively new buzz phrase in military navigation systems. It enhances existing selective availability anti-spoofing module (SAASM) GPS navigational technologies (which are already immune to spoofing) with other PNT methods that are not susceptible to signal loss, jamming or satellite destruction. A-PNT?s lofty goal is to give soldiers the ability to identify and communicate accurate location, course, and time without countermeasure interference.
Radar/EW

Low-latency processing, open architectures key for smarter radar/EW systems - Story

February 09, 2017
Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems  
System-performance requirements and open architectures are driving development of smarter radar and electronic warfare (EW) systems. For EW systems, low-latency processing is a key requirement.
Radar/EW

Common standards, 3U VPX, open architecture initiatives flavor ETT conference - Story

January 31, 2017
John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems  
Every month the McHale Report will host an online roundtable with experts from the defense electronics industry ? from major prime contractors to defense component suppliers. Each roundtable will explore topics important to the military embedded electronics market. This month we discuss the use of board-level open standards by the military and trends emerging from the Embedded Tech Trends conference held last week in New Orleans.
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Army procurement and COTS - Story

October 31, 2016
John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems  
Every month the McHale Report will host an online roundtable with experts from the defense electronics industry ? from major prime contractors to defense component suppliers. Each roundtable will explore topics important to the military embedded electronics market. This month we discuss technology and market trends in the U.S. Army sector with exhibitors from the Association of the U.S. Army?s (AUSA) Annual Meeting held earlier this month in Washington. They cover Army unmanned system trends, the service?s approach to commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) procurement, market performance, and other trends.
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